单词 | uncouponed |
释义 | uncouponedadj. 1. a. Of a person: not provided with, or making use of, a coupon or coupons. Also (of food): not subject to the restrictions of rationing coupons. Now rare. ΚΠ 1883 Times of India 6 Apr. You at least get the sort of room you would yourself choose were you travelling un-couponed. 1887 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 30 July 15/3 They had come here unticketed, uncouponed, and free to choose their own hotels, transportation and guides. 1918 Bystander 20 Mar. 596/1 If at a restaurant we dine, For old uncouponed meals we pine. 1944 Manch. Guardian 30 Aug. 4/3 An unfortunate ‘elderly miner’..who has just been fined £5 at St. Helens for selling examples of his skill to uncouponed souvenir-hunters. b. With reference to the British general election of 1918: designating a parliamentary candidate standing without the endorsement of the coalition government. Cf. coupon n. 4. ΚΠ 1918 A. Bennett in New Statesman 21 Dec. 238/1 Of course, you will assume that he is a Coalitionist. But no! He is a mere uncouponed libertine Liberal. 1982 Eng. Hist. Rev. 97 823 The old Whitechapel division..had exceptionally low enfranchisement.., yet after the Reform Act it again returned Liberals in 1918 (uncouponned). 2011 Times (Nexis) 15 Apr. 29 The coalition agreed not to oppose him [sc. H. H. Asquith] in the 1918 general election and he received the coupon. He was nevertheless defeated by an uncouponed independent Conservative. 2. Of goods: not subject to controls on export or sale organized by means of coupons; unrestricted, unrationed.Frequently with reference to the Malayan rubber industry of the early 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [adjective] > assigned or allotted > rationed by coupons > not uncouponed1918 coupon-free1941 1918 Sat. Rev. 24 Aug. 766/2 Are they [sc. canaries] too, ‘Dora's’ victims, subsisting wholly upon canary seed, as yet uncouponed, and denied their lump of sugar? 1925 Financial Times 24 Mar. 3/1 The 6,000 to 7,000 tons of uncouponed rubber which have been in their hands since May, 1923. 1967 Punch 13 Sept. 388/1 Unfortunately the police caught him with several bales of uncouponed suit material. 1991 J. H. Drabble Malayan Rubber: Interwar Years iii. 130 Disposing of the actual output as uncouponed rubber, which the dealers then matched up with their earlier coupon purchases. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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